Fresh water Quote by Paul R. Ehrlich Download Open image “There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.” — Paul R. Ehrlich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fresh water Oil Overpopulation Substitutes Water
No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water. — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but also conserve… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available. — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system,… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“It's like asking me to describe fresh water. I need it to live. I need her to live” — Calia Read Copy Share Image
At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
“Our pals over at Wikipedia make hair sounds like the sun of fresh water, saying in their snooty tone that head hair has "gained… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a floating object that dispensed fresh water, if only it were lighter and shaped like a cloud. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Accras (Saltfish Fritters) Accras (or acrats) de morue are saltfish fritters—the French island version of Dingis’s saltfish cakes. (Morue is French for cod.) Serve… — Ann Vanderhoof Copy Share Image
“Do you not wish that the poor little children who live in dirty courts and play in the gutters had some of the care… — Edwin Henry Landseer Copy Share Image
“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image